Trace-chaii



(No Model.)

M. H. KINSLEY.

TRACE CHAIN;

No. 412,960. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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' ATTOIR N EY-S MYRON H. KINSLEY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, ASSIGNOR TO THE ONEIDA COM- MUNITY, (LIMITED,) OF COMMUNITY, NEW YORK.

TRACE CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,960, dated. October 15, 1889.

Application filed June 3, 1889. Serial No. 312,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MYRON I-I. KINSLEY, of Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented new and 5 useful Improvements in Trace- Chains, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a trace-chain in which minimum weight shall be combined with maximum strength, and which shall also obviate in a great measure the chafing of the sides of the horse by contact with the chain and to that end my in- I 5 vention consists in the novel construction and combination of the constituents of the chain, as hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a trace-chain embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, illustrating its connection with the hams-hook; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which one of the links is formed. 2 5 My improved trace-chain is composed of links Z Z, each of which is formed of two thicknesses of sheet metal provided with coinciding slots or perforations 1', through which the adjacent link passes, and the end links Z, longer than the central links and having their slots 4. adapted to receive the hame-hook G, as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, thereby affording to the chain a double hold on the hame-hook.

These chains are usually hooked and un-' hooked from the hame in hitching and unhitching the draft-animal; hence the desirability of the enlarged end links Z.

In practice I form each link in one piece stamped out of sheet metal and of the form of an elongated strip, having longitudinallyelongated perforations in its end portions, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and folded with said end portions one upon the other, and 5 forming a loop 0 at the bend of the strip, said loop embracing the end cross-bars of the perforated portions of one of the adjacent links, and the other adjacent link embracing by its loop 0 the end cross-bars of the perforated 5o portion of the first-named link. Between two of the links of the chain I prefer to intei pose a swivel a, which I also form of blanks stamped out of sheet metal, (preferably steel,) the sleeved member of said swivel consisting of two plates lying one upon the other 5 and riveted to each other and provided with coinciding perforations or slots 0/ at one end, semi-cylindrical bends b l) at the opposite end, and openings d d back of said bends. The headed member of the swivel consists of a sheet-metal strip formed with heads a e at opposite ends and folded with said heads one upon the other and embraced back of said heads by the bends b b of the sleeved member. The central or bent portion of the headed 6 5 member forms a loop 71/, by which it is connected to the adjacent link of the chain. The sleeved member is connected in like manner by its slots ct to one of the links of the chain. 0

To the end of the chain by which it is connected to the whiftletree I preferably attach a ring a", which allows a portion of the chain to be looped through it when desired to connect the chain to the whifiletree by such a 7 loop embracing it.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a trace-chain composed of the links Z 3, each consisting of an elongated strip perforated at its ends and bent into the loop 0, embracing the end cross-bars of the perforated portions of one of the adjacent links, and the other adjacent link embracing by its loop the end cross-bars of the perforated portions of the first-named link, and a swivel to between two of the links at one end, and also composed of sheet metal, the sleeved member of said swivel consisting of two plates lying one upon the other and provided with coinciding perforations ct at one end, semi-cylindrical bends l) b at the opposite ends, and openings cl (1 back of said bends, rivets unitingsaid plates, 5 and the headed member of said swivel, consisting of a sheet-metal strip bent into the loop h and provided with heads 6 e, lying one upon the other and embraced back of the heads by the bends h b of the sleeved member, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of May, 1889.

MYRON H. KINSLEY. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

O. H. DUELL, J. J. LAAss. 

